QuickCheck: Did two women fall victim to a phone scam in Miri?


IT'S the same old story – people falling victim to fraudsters claiming to be an official of some sort and claiming they can "absolve" them of any wrongdoing if they do exactly as told.

The modus operandi remains more or less the same, so despite the many accounts of other victims and countless warnings from authorities, is it true two women in Miri, Sarawak fell for a phone scam?

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